On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 10:25 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
if a user is rebuilding their libata subsystem and replacing the modules, or replacing their alsa modules, or whatnot, they've already voided the "i'd like to help you" implied contract in open source, so they should just go run and support their own kernel.
Yay! So then one day we can look forward to everything being built in and a user wanting to build a webcam driver having to build their own kernel too. Then we'll really have won because that user - who can follow some straightforward instructions on a website showing them how to build a driver and install it - will give up and go use Ubuntu.
Just because we can build our own kernels with whatever patches does not mean that all users who want to add a driver are capable of this.
Jon.